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Honestly as much as I love the enthusiasm people are showing to beat up Nazis I can’t help but be irked at how people are perpetuating the historical fiction that America was the most vehement opponent of Nazism.

America only opposed the Nazis because Britain did. Britain only did because they viewed national boundaries as of divine import. Churchill liked Hitler until he started invading other countries. Pro-Nazi rallies were held across this nation, including at Madison Square Garden. Hitler directly praised American efforts at state-sponsored eugenics and treatment of Native Americans.

Stop playing Captain America. It really is a fluke of history that the United States sided against the Nazis. This election is not in defiance of American political culture, it is a fulfillment of it.

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degrading a dog girl in a happy tone of voice so she gets excited and smiles and wags her tail

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From the outset of mech warfare, the joining of platform and pilot always engendered a special relationship. They share information, thoughts, and feelings, even though they understand them differently. When Cybernetic Neural Control v5 launched with Fully Autonomous Systems packaged in, the engineers thought it would render pilots obsolete. But try as they might, they could never replace that connection. Even as the neural frame took over all decision making, it still needed humanity. 

Every machine needs a Ghost.

To the degree she understands it, the machine feels the increase in neural load as a vague pressure. Without a Ghost, a mech can’t fully interpret sensation or effective purge strategies, so the Homunculus Protocol interfaces with her mind, maps that pressure onto her body, and interprets it as its closest human analogue.

To a Ghost, the neural frame’s analytic stress load feels like a growing heat between her legs, her thighs clenching and unclenching, her hips moving on their own. A growing wetness in the midst of all that warmth. Desperation. Hunger. A need for release.

Under routine neural loads she doesn’t notice it. That prey feeling? She can’t separate the anxiety of her first combat mission from the first signs of stress-induced physical agitation. 

At some point during basic training a Ghost’s body starts to mix up its signals. Anxiety becomes arousal. The air in the cadet barracks during exams carries enough musk and tension that they call it The Wetlands. A lot of Ghosts break each other’s hearts during basic. Even more, she hears, break each other’s hearts between missions. The best? They mostly just break each other.

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some autistic people will never be able to have a job or live alone, some women that are transvestigated in bathrooms will have a penis, sometimes a trans women will win a sport she is "naturally" gifted in such as being really tall and playing basketball and sometimes the homeless guy panhandling really will just spend that money on cigarettes and scratchers instead of food. they are still human beings that dont deserve to be tormented by the legal system and paranoid freaks

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girlcum is a lot like saffron in that its value comes from both its delicate flavor and the difficulty of extracting it in sufficient quantities

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Sooooo few people are actually willing to defend the basic human rights of people who have committed crimes. Like I know it's not fun but if you genuinely believe in human rights as a concept you can't be okay with the state violating them in prisons I'm sorrrrry. Having moral principles is not always a fun time.

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Therian bottom? You mean a stuffed animal?

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You're no longer bottoms. You're the holetariat

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Call me an ice-pick the way I need head from a communist

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If not for the loss of her lover, she would never believe pain could feel this exquisite and all-consuming. The agony of black poison surging through her veins hangs like a curtain in front of her memory, and she pushes past it to remember ritual diagrams scribed in carmine upon vellum pages.

One final task. Blade for blood and vessel for soul.

The viciously curved obsidian dagger looks far too brittle, but when her fingertips touch its intricately carved handle she feels it thrum with purpose. It knows how to separate costal cartilage from ribcage. How to artfully make its wielder bloom like a rose and splatter the floor with crimson petals.

She grips the blade in both hands, mouth acrid with fear and body trembling in anticipation. She almost hesitates.

But then she remembers billhooks and pitchforks at midnight. Torchlight twisting familiar faces into grotesque mockeries of her friends and neighbors. Righteous victory seething off of their bodies like smoke off the smoldering stake where they committed their greatest sin in the name of holiness and love while she watched, helpless, from the forest's edge.

The blackened corpse of the woman they "purified", burned brittle and gnarled. Their hatred. Her love.

And she steels herself. Her shaking stills. She draws in a deep breath.

She only gets one chance. You can't remove your own heart twice...

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A woman wakes to a memory of unbearable heat, yanked from oily darkness still clinging to her mind like film. Her eyes adjust slowly to her dim surroundings.

A few persistent thick candles still burn in the alcoves. Rust-red tendrils of blood spread across the flagstone floor of her tomb from a granite plinth adorned with a letter and an ornate gold box.

Gently, she stands. Her bare feet touch the cool floor and inferno fades further from her mind. Her first halting steps across the room take her to the letter and its contents.

She recognizes the familiar cursive script instantly and reads through a blur of tears as her pulse pounds in her ears.

I had to trade a life to bring you back, but they'd kill me for necromancy anyway. I'm so sorry for this. I'm so sorry I can't be here to wake you.

Please don't look for me. Just flee this place and never look back. I want you to remember me how I was, and I can't bear for you to see me now.

We always wanted to go back to the sea together. Go there, and live.

I ask only that you carry this box with you wherever you go, and that it should be destroyed upon your death. Hopefully at the end of a long, long life full of the happiness you deserve.

I love you. I will always love you.

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In an ancient town of pastel houses crowding narrow streets on the sea cliffs, a woman sits at an outdoor bistro across the table from the woman who became her wife a few years after she moved here. Countless days and nights of comfort hang in the silence between them as they share a bottle of white wine and playful smiles. Their fingers interlocked, they watch as the sun sets over the water and the night unfolds in front of them like a vast, speckled velvet sheet.

At a table nearby, over the din of the small crowd, she hears a merchant regale his comrades with his recent travels. Kernels of truth embellished with encounters with saucy maidens, daring-if-drunken hijinks, and heroic acts of courage in the face of banditry.

But his tone becomes solemn when he comes to his trip through a backwater village on the edge of the Greatwood where the trees no longer bloom and the soil yields not even weeds. Where the few surviving townsfolk fled so quickly they left their doors unlocked and food still cooking in their stewpots.

Of the crypt entrance littered with splintered bones and broken bodies, where even the crows dare not pick at the desecrated corpses of clerics who tried to exorcise the place of the furious and vengeful lich that dwells within.

She continues to watch the horizon, hoping to hide the tears welling in her eyes, to protect the one secret she'll always keep for herself. Smiling warmly, she reaches into her satchel and traces her fingertips over the familiar inscription on the cover of an ornate gold box.

My heart goes with you, always.

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At work plagued by thoughts of a mech bigger than you can imagine.

She starts like most of them do, a Titan excavator rig modestly sized for their line: maybe a house or thereabouts, a big house. (Doesn’t matter why she signed up - perhaps a breadwinner, a lone mother or eldest sister, a daughter of aging parents nobody else will take; doesn’t matter what site they sent her to, Earth or Enceladus or Venus or Europa. She’s there, and she lets them strap her in and adapt her for the piloting interface and pump her full of protein ooze and electrolytes and hyperstimulant cocktails as obediently as the next laborer.)

Upgrades come, from big house to bigger, with shovels like hillsides and treads like highways. Still she remains in the cockpit, out only for one day every six months to say hello to her burgeoning family, who have moved nearby to make it easy on her, to meet the baby nephews and nieces whose names she doesn’t yet know.

War comes. The facility hunkers down. It just makes sense to retrofit their biggest digger with shields, to expand her arsenal a little more, give her a better engine, pour all their leftover resources into making her a great guardian, and she rises to the occasion, shielding them from orbital rays, absorbing the energy and taking the pain of it up into her own engines. When the corporate rats who own the site finally turn tail and run the workers and their families band together and do the needful repairs themselves. Her nieces and nephews grow up learning engineering by the light of oil lamps from stolen Old Era textbooks and jailbroken datapads. She hardly ever now glimpses their faces with her own two eyes from within her steel shell but it is a worthy sacrifice to her, to them, for both parties know she is still there, still with them, embracing them in a great steel hug and watching through a thousand glass-lensed eyes.

Years pass. The brightest of her nieces works out how to modify the nutrition cocktail going into her cockpit so she will never age, never die, never fall sick. Somewhere in there all the metal and ceramic encloses her ever-sleeping body like a lotus flower around the benevolent, immortal form of a bodhisattva.

The outpost survives the war, somehow. Refugees hear of the little town on the colony that could, guarded by a goddess the size of a temple, and flock there. It makes sense to add to her control, among her array of sensors and actuators, the new city’s power generation and delivery system, its wall defenses, its waste management, its communications mains. Nowhere is anything safer than with her.

With all these new additions come techs and custodians to keep her in good care. They build modest crew cabins nestled amongst her treads (now rusty from disuse) so they can be close to her, the better to help her.

Slowly more and more falls under her purview, new cabins, then mezzanines and stairways and platforms between them; each generation has their own superstitions that they add to those of the last before them, so paintings crop up on her metal panels now, in nooks and crannies, often crude symbols that promise good oil changes or swift code updates, or simply depictions of their goddess, of the war she survived. Still she watches.

Her nieces and nephews are all dead now, and their nieces and nephews look on through rheumed eyes as the city attains new heights, heralded everywhere on every planet that still lives as an oasis of peace and prosperity. Still she watches.

A new company comes, enticed by the stories. They want to buy her. Buy her! The people scoff. As if you could just buy a person! - A person? asks the representative from Acher Spaceways, perplexed. - We heard she was your goddess.

She is both, of course, the goddess who lives, the goddess who is one hundred percent flesh and one hundred percent machine.

Acher doesn’t like this. They send machines - zero percent flesh, entirely drones - screaming down from the stars for a more insistent negotiation, one phrased in metal slugs and incendiary fire.

So your goddess rises up to meet them.

It is over in a short day. The drones lie in pieces; Acher, from orbit, licks their wounds, and the goddess rebukes them with a single laser blast, modified from her very first mining waymaker photonic drill.

The blast is precise and surgical. It tears apart the whole platform, spinning central axis to annular habitat space, which supernovas into a blossom of shining proof in the night sky at which the citizens below cheer.

But the pieces are falling, and soon they will pepper the surface below with molten debris, kick up dust into the atmosphere and make it all but unbreathable. The people could leave, the goddess advises them through short-wave radio bursts. They could use her emergency shuttles to escape gravity before it is too late, or they could go underground and salvage her rarest and most precious resources to survive until the surface is safe again.

Here is the thing - every pilot is augmented, and most augments are for the benefit of the plainly physical, for strength and speed and stamina and sharpness of perception. When her people augmented her, they augmented something else entirely. With every new module, every sensor upgrade, every painted symbol and hidden shrine, they gave her a superhuman capacity not for stamina or speed or strength, but for love.

It is her love that saved them, so they must save her back.

For two days they work tirelessly, the whole city, while above them the shattered pieces of Acher Spaceways looms ever closer. When they are done the treads are gone, the cabins dismantled, only the little drawings carefully preserved under coats of abrasion- and heat-resistant paint. And under her, their city, their Haven, lie rockets, ten of them, repurposed from the old all-ore crucibles, fit to move an asteroid.

She’s out there somewhere by Orion now, they say, the fourth jewel in his belt. And she has only grown: from three thousand then to three hundred million. Creatures from all over come to pay her their respects, or to visit lovers, or to live there themselves. There is always room in a body that is ever expanding, like the cosmos itself. Over all of them, she watches, eternal.

Among all the stories they tell of her, they repeat this one the most - how she tore apart a whole space station for the sake of her people, knowing she would die if she failed, for how can a whole city hope to flee? She guards them, and in turn they do not abandon her. They are two halves of the same whole, they say reverently, love manifest - the people and their city; this pilot, this great machine. This Haven.

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girlboss? no. girlworkers. girlunion. we have nothing to lose but our girlchains.

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I catch the stranger's eye in the dim lighting of the bar and we identify each other instantly. Her gaze falls to my USB bracelet as she subtly touches the back of her neck and blushes. We share knowledge about each other in that moment, something nobody else can see. Something nobody else can know. But tonight, neither of us will feel alone.

Later, in her hotel room, she lays opened up for me, my keyboard connected to a port in her stomach as I study holographic code projected by her electric blue eyes. The adapter plugged into the base of her skull hums with intermittent vibration and her lips part to a sound of synthesized ecstasy.

I know how to love a woman like her. Like me. And she lets me probe the intimate depths of her programming with every keystroke of my slender fingers. Coupling through syntax. Curled around each other like braces.

For that trust, for what we share tonight, I will make her delicate circuitry sing with lighting.

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flirting with another domme top by telling her "together we could become something useful"

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I'm a 9th level AGP but I'm taking a level in HSTS for Find Traps as a free action